A Political Refugee From The Global Village

As a footnote (headnote) to the last two paragraphs of my last post, I now learn Knut Wittkowski has told the New York Times that YouTube r...

A protest is taking place in Piata Victoriei, in front of the Romanian government building, against the lockdown which ended yesterday.  ...

Will the Coronavirus pandemic (apparently it is not a pandemic, because too few people have been infected so far, but let that pass) be som...

I wish the evil deeds of the far left were as well known as those of the far right. Workers restoring the casino in Constanta have found a...

'I think Britain is a much, much better place than when I first came here [in 1973]. It’s more cosmopolitan and worldly, and I love tha...

Toma commented on my blog that deaths in Romania in March 2020 were 298 lower than in March 2019 and 411 lower in February 2020 compared to...

Vitamin D is an excellent medicine against all viruses, especially in the yummy form of sun dried tomatoes and, little as I like wearing th...

“We are losing a city of 15,000, 16,000 people per year just by the fact that we have 15,000, 16,000 more deaths than births. For a countr...

Free at last! Naturally an overcast cool morning. I wandered into the Mavrogheni church by the National Peasant Museum, a place with unhapp...

News coverage of the virus pandemic in the West is entwined with the contemporary Western obsession about race. Here is an example of race-...

'And thorough research in New York City, where there has been the greatest concentration of occurrences of the illness in North Americ...

Horațiu Moldovan,  Secretary of State (junior minister) in the Romanian Ministry of Health,  said on Wednesday that the official Romanian b...

China Daily , the newspaper of the Chinese communist party, published a letter by all 27 EU ambassadors calling for greater cooperation wit...

Today is the philosopher David Hume’s 309th birthday. He was the first well-known European freethinker or atheist to die without making a c...

On this day on 1107 the Russian Primary Chronicle records the death of the first wife of Vladimir Monomakh (‘He who fights alone’). The chr...

“... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it - a hard task whatever one may do - but ...

“Ironically, North Korea in the 1960s and 1970s had far higher living standards than China and North Koreans would frequently congratulat...

Professor Neil Ferguson is a highly intelligent and very dangerous fool. His predictions of 500,000 dead from Coronavirus, based on modelli...

Conrad Black thinks Joe Biden is 'cooked' and it is very hard to disagree. Apparently, "cooked" means "ruined" ...

“After the collapse of one pillar of the former bipolar world order, it became fashionable in the West to think that the world order could...